Intro to Marine Bio
The scientific study of biological processes and organisms in an ocean setting
What is Marine Biology?
This is 4.5 billion years old
Earth
This is a vast body of saline (salt) water that occupies the depressions on the surface of the Earth.
What is an ocean?
the remains of once-living organisms.
What are Biogenous sediments
These type of waves are created by a force that disturb the medium.
What are Disturbing Force waves?
A field of study closely related to marine biology, is the scientific study of the oceans that integrates biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, and physics.
What is Oceanography?
The middle and only liquid layer of the Earth
What is the Mantle?
the tendency of water molecules to stick to other surfaces
What is adhesion?
produced from the Earth, originating from the erosion of continents or islands, from volcanic eruptions, or from blown dust.
What are Terrigenous sediments?
The gravitational pull of these two factors cause tides
What is the moon and the sun?
Considered as the "first marine biologist"
Who is Aristotle?
These type of boundaries occur when two plates slide past each other, causing shearing.
What are Transform plate boundaries?
the upward movement of water that brings deep, cold, nutrient-rich water toward the surface, vice versa for its opposite
What is upwelling?
sediments that have formed from minerals that have precipitated directly from seawater.
What are Hydrogenous Sediments?
waves that are produced by water displacement resulting from earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, asteroid impacts, or icebergs falling from glaciers.
What are tsunamis?
A proposed explanation of what has been observed by a scientist that might be true and is testable.
What is a hypothesis?
Any volcanic features on the abyssal plains that are less than 1,000 meters tall
What are abyssal hills?
occurs on a global scale, straddling the hemispheres, with tropical water being transported to the poles.
What is thermohaline circulation?
water and wind erode mountains, transporting the sediment to the ocean, where it is deposited on the seafloor. The sediments then travel with the plate movement, where they are then either uplifted or subducted and made again into mountains.
What is the sediment cycle?
These types of tides are seen on the coastline of Antarctica and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Pacific Ocean.
What are Diurnal Tides?
When a hypothesis has been tested again and again and passed every possible test
What is a scientific law?
The enormous ocean that surrounded Pangaea
What is Panthalassa?
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1°C
What is the specific heat capacity?
primarily combinations of terrigenous and biogenous deposits, with occasional supplements of hydrogenous and cosmogenous sediments.
What are Neritic Sediments?
tides with successive high tides or low tides that are of significantly different heights in a lunar day.
What are mixed semidiurnal tides?